London premiere by the Dante Quartet at Blackheath Halls on 25th January 2009.

But the most substantial concert [Presteigne Festival] featured the Dante Quartet, framing the premiere of Matthew Taylor's String Quartet No.5 with some rather rough-hewn Haydn and Janacek. Clearly, all rehearsal time had been spent on the Taylor - justifiably so, for this was an outstandingly imaginative and accomplished single-movement work, travelling from a highly-charged cross-etching of ideas to a mesmeric lullaby in 15 beguiling minutes.